1. Elizabeth Margaret Jane Humphreys Gollan was a Scottish novelist from Inverness-shire who wrote 120 books, plays and essays, and founded the Writers' Club for Women.
10 Facts About Eliza Humphreys
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Eliza Humphreys's father travelled extensively, visiting India and Australia, and became a landowner in Scotland following his inheriting the family home at Gollanfield.
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Eliza Humphreys Gollan was born on 14 June 1850 on the family estate as the second of three children.
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Eliza Humphreys received little formal education, but her talent for story writing was apparent at an early age.
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Eliza Humphreys used her experience of Australia to write a semi-autobiographical novel Sheba in 1889, using the pen-name 'Rita'.
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Humphreys used the stage name, Desmond Humphreys, and after their marriage Eliza was known as Mrs W Desmond Humphreys.
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Eliza Humphreys spent her married life in Cork, Ireland, Bournemouth and Bath, Somerset.
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Eliza Humphreys helped to found the Lyceum Club Writers' Club for Women.
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Eliza Humphreys Humphrey's final book was an autobiography Recollections of a Literary Life.
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Eliza Humphreys died of heart failure, aged 87, on 1 January 1938 at the family home at 239 West Brow, Combe Down, Bath; her husband died in the following year.